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6 unusual facts about Carphone warehouse


Commonwealth Games England

CGE is governed by a board of Non-executive Directors, chaired by Sir Andrew Foster, including as of October 2013, former England international netballer Karen Atkinson, President of Speedo International Limited David Robinson, and co-founder of Carphone Warehouse and British Olympic Association non-executive director David Ross, amongst other experts from fields including sport, marketing and finance.

Geek Squad

In October 2006, it was reported that Geek Squad would be launching in the United Kingdom in a joint 50-50 venture with Carphone Warehouse, where today it exists as both an onsite service and a remote repair service.

Joanna Page

In 2009, Page provided the voice-overs for a series of Kingsmill bread TV and radio advertisements and the Christmas TV advertising campaign for the Carphone Warehouse.

Kingston Park

Aside from the large Tesco Extra superstore, other Shops in Kingston Park include, Boots, The Carphone Warehouse, Matalan, T.K. Maxx, Halfords, Currys, PC World, McDonalds, William Hill bookmaker and a Marks & Spencer food store.

Nevill Holt

In 2000, the Hall was bought and restored by Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross who had visited the prep school which a friend of his at Uppingham School had attended.

Wapworld

In December 1999 Jingo took its gateway technology and portal into a joint venture with The Carphone Warehouse and Bob Geldof to support the UK release of the Nokia 7110 handset.


Data virtualization

The Phone House—the trading name for the European operations of UK-based mobile phone retail chain Carphone Warehouse—implemented Denodo’s data virtualisation technology between its Spanish subsidiary’s transactional systems and the Web-based systems of mobile operators.

Luke Toyne

His live event hosting includes public entertainment, corporate networking, media workshops and marketing campaigns including 'Robots Live' - the roadshow tour of Robot Wars, Carphone Warehouse, Virgin and Derren Brown's dating experiment for Trick or Treat on Channel 4.

North Acton tube station

The support centre for Carphone Warehouse, NEC and numerous other companies have offices in the vicinity.


see also

Charles Dunstone

Dunstone employed the controversial ex-convict Ernest Saunders as a business consultant for Carphone Warehouse prior to its flotation.